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Byrne's testimony came as he tried to clarify an earlier statement seized on by his opponents for the GOP nomination.

Byrne had been quoted in the Mobile Press-Register in November as saying, "I believe there are parts of the Bible that are meant to be literally true and parts that are not."

That quote has followed him, including to his appearance at a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in New Hope, where Byrne came to announce his first big endorsement this year, from the Alabama Retail Association.

When notice of the press conference was posted on al.com Wednesday morning, several posters said things similar to this:

"Just got a call from a person at my Church letting me know about this," said uafan1198. "My family will not be shopping at Ragland Piggly Wiggly stores anymore or anything else they own.... I don't shop at places that think it is OK to stand next to people who don't believe the Bible is all true."

Byrne said at Piggly Wiggly that he had been misquoted. The report has been used by his opponents in anonymous attacks since November, Byrne added.

I don't even have words for how breathtakingly stupid and ridiculous this is.

Re: Bradley Byrne Says "Every Word" of Bible is True

... said the woman that had a young child's understanding of the bible for several decades, and clung to it for way too long, but then got mad at everyone else but herself for not seeing the obvious much much sooner.

Re: Bradley Byrne Says "Every Word" of Bible is True

Imagine if Walmart owned access to all the streets in your town. You can go to Target or the mom and pop downtown if you want, but all the roads leading there require a toll, whereas the roads leading to Walmart are free. That is not the avenue the internet needs to go down.

Re: Bradley Byrne Says "Every Word" of Bible is True

Originally Posted by niftydrifty

How?

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Because I think its breathtakingly stupid and ridiculous to boycott a store or a politician for stating what is not an uncommon view of many biblical scholars....that EVERYTHING in the bible is 100% factual in its most literalistic sense.

Oh, and I disagree about it being so bad that religion in some ways is tied with politics. Religion is essentially a form of philosophy, of way of thinking and believing one should live. I would have no problem with a person voting or a politician basing his political views on the teachings of Aristotle, Similarly I have no issue with them doing it based off the teachings of the bible.

My issue would be when they start to attempt to force me in my private life to follow those teachings or not express my own beliefs...be it the philosophies of ancient Greece of the teachings of the Christians.

Imagine if Walmart owned access to all the streets in your town. You can go to Target or the mom and pop downtown if you want, but all the roads leading there require a toll, whereas the roads leading to Walmart are free. That is not the avenue the internet needs to go down.